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Invertebrate having jointed limbs and a segmented body with an exoskeleton made of chitin
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arthropod
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Wiktionary
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n. An invertebrate animal of the phylum ''Arthropoda'', characterized by a chitinous exoskeleton and multiple jointed appendages.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1877, from Modern Latin Arthropoda , literally "those with jointed feet," biological classification of the phylum of segmented, legged invertebrates; see Arthropoda .
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n. invertebrate having jointed limbs and a segmented body with an exoskeleton made of chitin
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
An arthropod (from Greek arthro- , joint + podos , foot) is an invertebrate animal having an exoskeleton (external skeleton ), a segmented body, and jointed appendages (paired appendages). Arthropods form the phylum Arthropoda , which includes the insects ...
Usage examples of arthropod.
The relief proved short, however, for the ambar turned out to be some sort of arthropod, something like a gigantic cockroach the size of a lobster, half buried under other ambiguous objects and an oily sauce that had been poured over all.
The arthropods, the most populous of the phyla, included creatures like insects, centipedes, millipedes, spiders, and crabs.
Every now and then something crawled out of the slunch: wriggling pale arthropods with masses of tentacles where their heads should have been or those flat, raylike, pincered flying things that she had seen chasing the hawk.
She had examined trees, shrubs, moss, fungi, and arthropods with singular intensity.
Although he had barely a high school education and was self taught in the sciences, Walcott became a leading authority on trilobites and was the first person to establish that trilobites were arthropods, the group that includes modern insects and crustaceans.
The sea swarms with tiny arthropods today that have left no fossil record.
The idea is that just as mammals bided their time for a hundred million years until the dinosaurs cleared off and then seemingly burst forth in profusion all over the planet, so too perhaps the arthropods and other triploblasts waited in semimicroscopic anonymity for the dominant Ediacaran organisms to have their day.
We wandered through a confusion of departments where people sat at large tables doing intent, investigative things with arthropods and palm fronds and boxes of yellowed bones.
This act is called enrolment, a rather common behaviour for arthropods, and it seems to me that this is what Tom has been doing these past weeks.
Vertebrates do it by means of a backbone and internal skeleton, arthropods achieve structural rigidity by means of a tough external skeleton or shell.
Through the mist loomed more many-storied arthropods, gnawing through one another even in death.
Why a cluster of arthropods should escape while a much smaller container of half-centimeter-long wigglers remained behind he could not fathom.
In front of them several dozen small arthropods with metallic green backs were marching along in single file, each using specialized gripping organs to maintain contact with its relative immediately in front.
The single-minded arthropods were not the first example of communal living they had observed among the Xican fauna, but they were by far the most attractive and amusing.
Le-jardin, who was standing outside one of their two huts stacking a half dozen recently collected arthropods held in compact observation and display cases.